Trixi (1971).“When I first saw Steve’s films, I actually very often had to leave the cinema,” Laura Mulvey once recalled. Dwoskin’s shorts and early features, shown in alternative venues around London in the late 1960s and early ’70s, tended to show a woman alone in a room, often naked, responding to the camera, sometimes seducing it: Alone (1964), Soliloquy (1964/7), Take Me (1969), Moment (1969), and Girl (1971)... At the time she saw them, Mulvey was working on what became her famous essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” published in 1975. Having been repelled at first, she began to find that Dwoskin’s films “opened a completely new perspective for me on cinematic voyeurism.” The first draft included a section discussing them, particularly the half-hour Trixi (1971), an “overtly ‘voyeuristic’ film” in which the seduction is consummated. In Mulvey’s words, Dwoskin’s handheld camera facilitated his “intimate involvement as an equal participant in the erotic drama,...
- 6/16/2022
- MUBI
Comedy Dynamics has acquired Laura Madalinksi’s 2 In The Bush: A Love Story. The feature is slated for release through the Comedy Dynamics network in Fall 2019.
Written by Madalinski and Kelly Haas, the film follows Emily who, after losing her job, arrives home early from work to find her girlfriend in the throes of passion with someone else. In an instant, her entire life is turned upside down. Moving in with her best friend, Emily lands a new gig working for a dominatrix. When she falls for her new boss, and then her boss’s boyfriend, Emily must decide what risks are worth taking for love.
2 In The Bush: A Love Story was an official selection of the 2018 OutFest La, and played at numerous festivals including BFI Flare London Lgbtq+ Film Festival as well as NewFests, New York’s Lgbtq Film Festival.
The acquisition deal for 2 In The Bush was...
Written by Madalinski and Kelly Haas, the film follows Emily who, after losing her job, arrives home early from work to find her girlfriend in the throes of passion with someone else. In an instant, her entire life is turned upside down. Moving in with her best friend, Emily lands a new gig working for a dominatrix. When she falls for her new boss, and then her boss’s boyfriend, Emily must decide what risks are worth taking for love.
2 In The Bush: A Love Story was an official selection of the 2018 OutFest La, and played at numerous festivals including BFI Flare London Lgbtq+ Film Festival as well as NewFests, New York’s Lgbtq Film Festival.
The acquisition deal for 2 In The Bush was...
- 8/28/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
IFC First Take
Anyone who has seen any of Matthew Barney's surreal "Cremaster" films will undoubtedly be intrigued as to what exactly makes this singular avant-garde artist tick. Alison Chernick's documentary attempts to provide some much-needed insight, combining a biographical and artistic portrait of the provocateur with behind-the-scenes footage of the creation of his latest film, "Drawing Restraint 9". While not as balanced or fully satisfying as it should be, "Matthew Barney: No Restraint" will fit naturally as a pairing for future theatrical and DVD exposures of Barney's controversial works.
The main focus of the documentary is Barney's efforts to shoot his outlandish opus, in which he co-stars with Bjork, about a couple who are transformed into whales on a working Japanese whaling vessel. An elaborate production that involved, among many other bizarre aspects, about 45,000 pounds of petroleum jelly, the project necessitated the help of the bemused crew, who, though they have no idea what they're getting involved with, cooperate in good-natured fashion.
While the artist's commitment and passion for his work is clearly evident in these segments, they add up to little more than the routine sort of behind-the-scenes footage now standard in DVD releases.
More informative is the film's tracing of Barney's career as a visual artist and filmmaker, as well as his background in athletics and modeling. Included are film clips from his cinematic efforts and interviews with such subjects as Bjork, his artistic collaborator and real-life partner; New York Times critic Michael Kimmelman, an unabashed fan; and gallery owner Barbara Gladstone, who championed his work early on. Critical comments, needless to say, are few and far between.
Anyone who has seen any of Matthew Barney's surreal "Cremaster" films will undoubtedly be intrigued as to what exactly makes this singular avant-garde artist tick. Alison Chernick's documentary attempts to provide some much-needed insight, combining a biographical and artistic portrait of the provocateur with behind-the-scenes footage of the creation of his latest film, "Drawing Restraint 9". While not as balanced or fully satisfying as it should be, "Matthew Barney: No Restraint" will fit naturally as a pairing for future theatrical and DVD exposures of Barney's controversial works.
The main focus of the documentary is Barney's efforts to shoot his outlandish opus, in which he co-stars with Bjork, about a couple who are transformed into whales on a working Japanese whaling vessel. An elaborate production that involved, among many other bizarre aspects, about 45,000 pounds of petroleum jelly, the project necessitated the help of the bemused crew, who, though they have no idea what they're getting involved with, cooperate in good-natured fashion.
While the artist's commitment and passion for his work is clearly evident in these segments, they add up to little more than the routine sort of behind-the-scenes footage now standard in DVD releases.
More informative is the film's tracing of Barney's career as a visual artist and filmmaker, as well as his background in athletics and modeling. Included are film clips from his cinematic efforts and interviews with such subjects as Bjork, his artistic collaborator and real-life partner; New York Times critic Michael Kimmelman, an unabashed fan; and gallery owner Barbara Gladstone, who championed his work early on. Critical comments, needless to say, are few and far between.
- 12/28/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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